# IRP Registration Fees by State and Province: How the Apportioned Fee Is Built

There is no single IRP fee table, because every state and province sets its own registration fee by weight and you pay each one in proportion to your distance there. Here's how the fees differ between jurisdictions, a worked example for a tractor running Ontario, Quebec and New York, and what makes the total go up or down.

Source: https://www.highpointgps.com/resources/irp-registration-fees-by-state-province
By Israel Margulies, CEO & Founder — published 2026-09-18, updated 2026-09-18

## Why Every Jurisdiction's Fee Is Different

Each of the 59 IRP member jurisdictions publishes its own registration fee schedule by registered gross weight, set by its own legislature and updated on its own schedule. Some are steep at the top weights and some are flat; some add surcharges or highway-fund levies on the apportioned portion; Canadian provinces set fees in dollars per kilogram bands and US states in weight classes in pounds. IRP does not harmonize them. What it does is let the base jurisdiction collect the carrier's share of every one of them on a single invoice and distribute the money.

## A Worked Example

Take a tractor registered at 80,000 pounds combined, based in Ontario, with a July-to-June distance split of 60% Ontario, 30% Quebec and 10% New York. The base jurisdiction looks up Ontario's annual fee for that weight and takes 60% of it, Quebec's fee and takes 30%, and New York's fee and takes 10%, then adds the three. If Ontario's fee for the class were $2,900, Quebec's $2,600 and New York's $1,900 — illustrative figures, since each changes — the apportioned fee would be $1,740 plus $780 plus $190, about $2,710 for the year, before the base jurisdiction's administrative and plate fees. Shift ten points of distance from Ontario to New York and the number falls; shift them to a high-fee state and it rises.

## What Moves the Total

Registered weight is the largest lever, since every schedule climbs with it; a truck registered above the weight it actually runs pays the difference in every jurisdiction every year. The distance split is the second, and it is where measured data beats estimates in both directions: over-reporting a high-fee jurisdiction overpays, under-reporting invites an audit recalculation. A first-year fleet with no history uses the base jurisdiction's average per-vehicle distance chart, which spreads distance across many jurisdictions and usually costs more than the fleet's real pattern would. Vehicles added mid-year are prorated by the months remaining.

## Getting the Split Right

The distance figures come from the fleet's own records, and telematics produces them as a report: distance by jurisdiction for any date range, per unit, from continuously logged position. The July-to-June report is the IRP schedule; the same report by quarter is the IFTA return. Fleets that run both from one dataset file consistent numbers with both agencies, which is also what an auditor from either one checks first. High Point GPS configures the jurisdiction reporting for carriers across Quebec, Ontario and the northeastern US.

## FAQ

### Is there an IRP fee table by state?

Each jurisdiction publishes its own registration fee schedule by weight. IRP does not set a common fee; it apportions each jurisdiction's own fee by your distance there.

### How is the IRP fee calculated?

Each jurisdiction's annual fee for the vehicle's weight class, multiplied by the fleet's percentage of distance in that jurisdiction, summed across all jurisdictions, plus the base jurisdiction's administrative fees.

### Which is more expensive, US or Canadian IRP fees?

It varies by jurisdiction and weight class. Some states and provinces are high at the top weights and some are low; the mix on a fleet's schedule decides the total.

### Why did my IRP fee go up when my trucks did not change?

Usually the distance split moved toward higher-fee jurisdictions, a jurisdiction raised its schedule, or a registered weight was increased.

### Can I lower my IRP fee?

Register at the weight you actually run, report measured distance rather than estimates, and avoid the first-year average chart where a real distance history exists.

## Sources

- [IRP, Inc.: The Plan](https://www.irponline.org/)
- [Ontario Ministry of Transportation: IRP](https://www.ontario.ca/page/international-registration-plan-irp)